Philological Association of the Carolinas

42nd Annual Conference

February 23-24, 2018

Daniel Library at The Citadel, Charleston, SC
 President’s Welcome

Welcome to the 42nd Annual PAC Conference! We are excited to host you this year at the
Daniel Library, on The Citadel’s unique historical campus. To those who are new to PAC, we
hope our collegial atmosphere and enriching conversations will keep you coming back. Perhaps
you are among those who fondly remember PAC as a first or an early academic conference
experience and we thank you for your support in making such an experience possible for new
and future scholars. To those visiting Charleston, we hope the breaks and evenings afford you
time to take in The Citadel’s unique campus and the many entertainments downtown. May the
presentations and discussions, as well as Saturday’s keynote address, bring new impulses and
energies to everyone’s work this semester and beyond.

-Dr. Amy Emm, Associate Prof, of German, The Citadel

Acknowledgments and Appreciations

Many thanks to the PAC Officers for their vital work on the program and conference planning:
Dr. Paul Worley, First Vice President and Editor of Postscript
Dr. Kai Werbeck, Second Vice President
Dr. Kristin Kiely, Secretary/Treasurer

Local Arrangements were possible thanks to the support of:

Mr. Bryan Dukes, Assistant Prof. Christine Elliott, Ms. Jessica Galvin, Ms. Mollie Jenkins, Ms.
Terri Johnson, Dr. Katya Skow, Ms. Bonnie Thompson

And a special thanks to PAC’s 2018 campus sponsors at The Citadel:

The Daniel Library, and Director Dr. David Goble
English, Fine Arts, and Communications and Dept. Head Dr. David Allen
Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Dept. Head Dr. Guy Toubiana
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dean, Dr. Bo Moore

About PAC

The Philological Association of the Carolinas (PAC) is dedicated to scholarship in modern

languages and literature, including linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. A regional
organization with an international scope, PAC holds annual meetings in North or South Carolina
that draw participants from neighboring states and beyond. As a smaller organization, PAC
strives to promote scholarly exploration in a collegial spirit. The organization is dedicated to
maintaining a strong community of educators, scholars, and graduates students and to providing
early professionalization opportunities for undergraduates. Postscript is the peer-reviewed
publication of PAC.

Presenters are encouraged to submit their work to Postscript, PAC’s peer-reviewed

journal, for consideration: http://pacpostscript.org/

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 Overview of Program

Friday, 2/23/18, 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Location Prioleau Museum LSS1 Lobby. 1st

Room Reading Room Floor
Registration Registration 1st
12:00-4:00 Floor
p.m.
Session I: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:
12:30-2:00 18th and 19th African Linguistics
p.m. Century Lit American
Literature
Coffee Break 3rd Floor
2:00-2:15 p.m.

Session II: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:

2:15-3:45 p.m. Contemporary Early 20th European Film
American A Century after 1945
American Lit

Following Friday’s last panels, PAC participants are invited to watch the
Citadel Corps of Cadets Parade
3:45 p.m., Summerall Field (Weather Permitting)
For more information and schedule updates, see:
http://www.citadel.edu/root/parade-schedule

Saturday, 2/24/18 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location Prioleau Museum LSS1 Lobby. 1st

Room Reading Room Floor
Registration Registration 1st
8:00-11:45 Floor
a.m.

Session I: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:

8:30-10:00 Creation and Contemporary Multimedia in the
a.m. Destruction: World Language
Las Vegas and Literature Classroom
Irresistible
Expansion
Coffee Break Refreshments,
10:00-10:15 3rd Floor
a.m.

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Session II: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:
10:15-11:45 Approaches to Pedagogy: World Literature
a.m. Music and Inclusion and from the Middle
Digital Media Diversity in Ages to the 20th
Foreign Century
Language
Classrooms
Lunch and
Keynote
12:00-1:30
p.m.
Mark Clark
Hall, Buyer
Auditorium,
2nd Floor
Session III: Panel 1: Harry Panel 2: Panel 3:
1:45-3:15 p.m. Potter: Latin American Victorian
Literature, Studies Literature
Language, Life
Coffee Break Refreshments,
3:15-3:30 p.m. 3rd Floor

Session IV: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:

3:30-5:00 p.m. Approaches to Pedagogy: World Literature
Film From High
Impact
Practices to
Rammstein
Business PAC Business
Meeting Meeting
5:00-6:00 p.m.

Detailed Program

Friday, 2/23/18

12:00-4:00 p.m.: Registration 1st Floor/Lobby

Session I: 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

18th and 19th Century Lit
Chair: Melanie C. Maddox, The Citadel

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“Melville’s Meritocracy Aboard the Pequod: The Ideal America in Moby-Dick”
Raven M. Gadsden, Winthrop University

“Obsession: A Chain Reaction Among Spectators in Joanna Ballie’s Basil”

Brianna Kramer, The College of Charleston

“Evolutional Theory that Transcends Science: The Evolutional Theory of T.H. Huxley and its
Presence of Thomas Carlyle”
Diana E. New, Western Carolina University

“Dorian Grey as a Commentary on Paterian Philosophy: Simulation, Heterotopia, and the

Uncanny Double”
Brooke Thomas, College of Charleston

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

African American Literature
Chair: Harish Chander, Shaw University

“The Problem of Evil in Langston Hughes' ‘Tambourines to Glory’"

Harish Chander, Shaw University

“‘Behold the Woman’: The Two-Part Person in The Wind Done Gone and Kindred”
Kristen Hixon, Charleston Southern University

“Counterhistory, Family, and Race in Topdog/Underdog”

Tracey Gruver, Western Carolina University

Panel 3: Learning and Study Space, 1st Floor

Linguistics
Chair: María José Hellín García, The Citadel

“Politically Tabooed Measures: Sanitizing the Economic Crisis through Metaphor and Euphemism”
María José Hellín García, The Citadel

“Fake news = real propaganda”

Margaret Williams, Western Carolina University

“It’s All in your Hands: Gesture as Marker and Mitigator of Semantic Bleach Effects in the Spatial
Domain”
Alyson G. Eggleston, The Citadel

“Borders within Borders: An Outsider’s Brick Wall—Understanding the Unsaid in Return to Sender:
A Linguistic Look at Literature”
Abdallah AlShuli, UNC Charlotte

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 2:00-2:15 p.m.: Coffee Break, 3rd Floor

Session II: 2:15-3:45 p.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

Contemporary American A
Chair: David McCracken, Coker College

“The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Alcoholic Denial, and Raymond Carver’s ‘Gazebo’”

David McCracken, Coker College

“‘An economy of pencil strokes’: Accountability in Cormac McCarthy”

James W Leonard, The Citadel

“Queer Nature: Liberating Nature from Gendered Binaries in The Stone Gods”
Margaret Williams, Western Carolina University

“Not So Easy: Walter Mosley’s Socratic Lowly Strength”

Eric Hyman, Fayetteville State University

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

Early 20th Century American Lit
Chair: Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte

“The Madwoman in the Nursery: The Consequences of “Womanly” Duties in The Yellow Wall-
Paper and The Turn of the Screw”
Mindy Buchanan-King, The College of Charleston

“A Realist Perspective in the Modern Age: Nona in Wharton's Twilight Sleep.”

Melissa Pluta Parker, Charleston Southern University

“Thank You For The Light: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Parable of Taboo Compassion.”
Richard Halkyard, Winthrop University

“What About Children?”: Toxic Heteronormativity and Family in Dorothy Allison’s “Don’t Tell
Me You Don’t Know”
Randi Adams, Western Carolina University

Panel 3: Learning and Study Space, 1st Floor

European Film after 1945: The Ghosts of National Socialism in European Postwar Cinema
Chair: Karoline Kiefel, UNC Charlotte

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“Cinematic Space as National Metaphor in Harald Reinl’s Der Frosch mit der Maske”
Kai-Uwe Werbeck, UNC Charlotte

“A Demon from the Past: Contemporary Polish Cinema and the Holocaust Debate”
Susanne Gomoluch, UNC Charlotte

“‘Petticoats, Schweinchenrosa und Zuckerguss:’ The Legacy of National Socialism in postwar

Germany”
Susanne Lenné Jones, East Carolina University

Saturday, 2/24/18

8:00-11:45 p.m. Registration 1st Floor/Lobby

Session I: 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

Creation and Destruction: Las Vegas and Irresistible Expansion
Chair: Gary Ettari, UNC-Asheville

“Atomic Tourist: An Economy of Destruction”

Hallie Kelly, UNC-Asheville

“Environmental Degradation and Its Effects on the Marginalized Populations of Las Vegas”
Kayla Black, UNC-Asheville

“The Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino: Integration and Strange Bedfellows”
Jelena Petrovic, UNC-Asheville

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

Contemporary World Lit
Chair: George E. Harding, III, Francis Marion University

“‘An empty suitcase’: Traveling to the American Dream in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake”
Jessica Newberry Palumbo, East Georgia State College

“Troubled Pages: Real-World Terror in Contemporary French Fiction”

Elizabeth A. Zahnd, Francis Marion University

“#Metoo in Peru: Sexual Violence in Claudia Salazar Jiménez’s La sangre de la aurora”

Karen A. Spira, Guilford College

Panel 3: Learning and Study Space, 1st Floor

Multimedia in the Language Classroom: From Skype to Film

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Chair: Kai-Uwe Werbeck, UNC Charlotte

“Skype-Tandem-Classes: a Potential for Intercultural Communicative Competences”

Sebastian Wittkopf, UNC Charlotte

“Use of media in the language classroom – use of film in translation classes: Translating culture-
specific aspects in movies”
Ann-Sophie Klein, UNC Charlotte

“Teaching Spanish Film in College: Opportunities, Challenges, and Examples”

Hugo Pascal Bordón, UNC Charlotte

10:00-10:15 a.m.: Coffee Break, 3rd Floor

Session II: 10:15-11:45 a.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

Approaches to Music and Digital Media
Chair: AmyLea Clemmons, Francis Marion University

“The Video Game as Political Scapegoat: Anxieties, Contradictions, and Hyperbole”

Aaron A. Toscano, UNC-Charlotte

“Netflixing My Atwood: Feminism and Adaptation Theory in the Age of Binged Content”
AmyLea Clemmons, Francis Marion University

“Special Delivery: How Oratory Benefits from Music”

Craig Hawley, Western Carolina University

“Rhetoric for Nonprofit Organizations: An In-Depth Look”

Sarah Harden Casto, Western Carolina University

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

Inclusion and Diversity in Foreign Language Classrooms
Chair: Angela Jakeway, UNC Charlotte

“Como la flor: Teaching Cultural diversity in the Spanish Language class through a film of a
Mexican-American female icon”
Celia A. Alpuche May, UNC Charlotte

“Identification and Othering in Textbooks used for German as a Foreign Language Acquisition in the
United States of America”

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 Karoline M. Kiefel, UNC Charlotte

“Terminology Selection in LGBTQ-themed Translation and Lessons for the Classroom”

Richard Knight, UNC Charlotte

Panel 3: Learning and Study Space 1

World Literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
Chair: Susanne Gomoluch, UNC Charlotte

“Modernity and the Dead Body in Early Modern Iberian Literature”

Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez, Davidson College

“The Role of the Arthurian Court in Literature and Courtly Culture”

George E. Harding, III, Francis Marion University

“Not Your Ordinary Book Burning: Libricide in Amélie Nothomb’s Les Combustibles and
Marguerite Duras’s La Pluie d’été”
Lisa Signori, College of Charleston

“The Early Novels of Bertha von Suttner: Women in 19th-Century German Novels for Women”
Katya Skow, The Citadel

Banquet and Keynote Address

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Buyer Auditorium, Mark Clark Hall, 2nd Floor

"Hearing the Voice of the Other: The Art and Value of Translation.”
Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner
Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Ph.D., 1996, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Professor of
German and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wofford
College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she has taught since 1997. Her publications include
articles on Austrian and German post-World War Two memoirs and fiction, Austrian Jewish
Studies, and Austrian Sinti culture in autobiographies, fiction, and documentary films. Her book
publications include two co-edited volumes with Marc-Oliver Schuster, Jazz in
Word (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017) and Jazz in German-Language Literature
(Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013), as well as Unredeemed Past: Themes of War and
Womanhood in the Works of Post-World War II Austrian Women Writers (Riverside, CA:
Ariadne Press, 2011) and Ingeborg Bachmann’s Telling Stories: Fairy Tale Beginnings and
Holocaust Endings (Ariadne Press, 2002).

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 Generous support for the keynote provided by

The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

The Citadel.

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 Session III: 1:45-3:15 p.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

Harry Potter: Literature, Language, Life
Chair: Trish Ward, The College of Charleston

“A Very Austen Moment in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

Trish Ward, The College of Charleston

“Harry Potter and the Philologist’s Ring: Introducing Philology Through Fantasy”
Michael Livingston, The Citadel

“Honor & Duty: Student Rebellion in Harry Potter & The Citadel’s 1898 Cadet Rebellion”
Melanie C. Maddox, The Citadel

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

Latin American Studies
Chair: Hugo Pascual Bordon, UNC Charlotte

“Memory, Identity, and Intractable German Legacy in Gloria Dünkler’s Chilean Patagonia in Füchse
von Llafenko”
Jennifer M. Valko, East Carolina University

“Colonial Spectacles: The Devil in Tlaxcala, Mexico 1585”

Juan J. Daneri, Desde las Antípodas Ediciones

“Chile y la tortura política (1973-1978): un alcance ritual y escenográfico”

Elba Andrade, The Citadel

Panel 3: Learning and Study Space, 1st Floor

Victorian Lit
Chair: Elizabeth Howells, Georgia Southern University

“Women in Windows in Victorian Art & Literature”

Elizabeth Howells, Georgia Southern University

“The Negation of a Soul”: Ineffectual Approaches to Labor and Poverty in John Ruskin’s “The
Roots of Honour”
Charlie Worsham, Western Carolina University

“White Feminism’: A Fairer View of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

Molly Bowman, Western Carolina University

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 3:15-3:30 p.m.: Coffee Break, 3rd Floor

Session 4: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Panel 1: Prioleau Room

Approaches to Film
Chair: Shawn Smolen-Morton, Francis Marion University

"'There’s an answer for everything': Indeterminacy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo"

Sean Heuston, The Citadel

“Don’t Shoot: Pacifist Soldiers in Recent WWII Films”

Shawn Smolen-Morton, Francis Marion University

“‘Beauty Found Within’: A Psychoanalysis of Disney’s 1991 and 2017 Adaptations of Beauty
and the Beast”
Kendall Spillman, Charleston Southern University

“Film in Search of a Genre: Buñuel’s Land Without Bread”

Alison T. Smith, The Citadel

Panel 2: Museum Reading Room

Pedagogy: From High Impact Practices to Rammstein
Chair: Nancy P. Nenno

“Transforming Students through High Impact Practices: A Case for Implementation of the Senior
Culminating Experience”
Trela N. Anderson and Jiyoung Kim, Fayetteville State University

“Rammstein and Romanticism, Mozart and Albrecht Dürer: Music and Art in the German Classroom
Angela Jakeway, UNC Charlotte

“Using Authentic Materials in Lower Level Language Classes”

Mary Ann Blitt, College of Charleston

“’They Expected College Level Teaching:’ Addressing Grammar in the Community College
Composition Classroom”
Jason Huber, A-B Tech Community College

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Panel 3: Learning and Study Space, 1st Floor
World Lit II
Chair: Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte

“Issues of Translation in B. Traven’s “Land des Frühlings”

Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte

“Reading Indigenous Literature Cover-to-Cover: The Shape of Narrative in Michael Nicoll

Yahgulanaas’s Red: A Haida Manga”
Michael Redman, Western Carolina University

“But I am just a woman!: Modesty as a Weapon in Fernanda de Castro’s Memoirs”

Silvia M Roca-Martinez, The Citadel

“Monstrosity as Resistance to the Other: The Adolescents in La casa de susurros Fight Back Against
Being Othered”
Kristin Kiely, Francis Marion University

5:00-6:00 p.m.: Business Meeting, Museum Reading Room. All are welcome.

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